Jupiter in Cancer:
Everything Will Be Alright in the End

Since
June 26 morning at 3:36 a.m. (CEST), a portion of the current time
quality has once again experienced a general change. From the perspective
of the Earth, Jupiter has wandered into the sign of Cancer; as of now, it
will constantly supply our inner images (above all, those that are
related to ourselves) and the sensations connected with them. They will
expand and expand and expand... And anyone who immediately thinks of
bursting balloons is not entirely amiss.

In a certain sense, Jupiter in Cancer is similar to a continual
Jupiter-Moon conjunction. But there are few short moments of actual,
time-dominated life in which the quality of such a connection can show
itself. In this respect, the next weeks and months are also an
opportunity to newly adjust our own inner mirror (Moon) and orient it
towards the contents that can give our entire life a helpful sense of
meaning (Jupiter).

This may contain many topical areas such as the question about our own
origin. In the "normal" Moon everyday life, this means our
worldly family: father and mother, brothers and sisters. In which basic
atmosphere did we grow up in, which image of the world has been imprinted
within us as a result, and how does this also still manifest today in our
fundamental feelings? Georges Gurdjieff (Jupiter in Cancer - LINK to the chart at Astrodienst) often liked to
ask his students the Jupiter variation of this question:

Who were you before your parents were born?

Where the mind (Mercury) stops at the boundary of our own sensory
perceptions, Jupiter takes at least one step further. Not as an end in
itself, but precisely this aspect contains the meaningful elements that
have always been attributed to it: showing new connections and new
correlations, as well as stretching and expanding the boundaries of our
own power of imagination – even in relationship to ourselves.

This also represents a healing process. Everything that has been
outsourced and seems foreign – which we encounter in the Scorpionic Bardo
as the image of the enemy – should now lose its terror. Not through
analysis and discipline, but by the expansion of the inner space. Because
fear and its related defense usually occurs where our own inner space
(Moon) is so tight and small that it is completely filled by every single
image and every single impression. Then there is no longer any escape or
perspective; what remains in the worst case are the Plutonian depths of
desperation and helplessness. Jupiter's expansion creates space and new
contents. With this larger background, what is apparently false and bad
becomes just one aspect among many others. It therefore no longer needs
to be bitterly stamped out, destroyed, and fought but loses its power in
the expansiveness of new dimensions. From this new, Olympian perspective,
we can also afford to have empathy with those who previously threatened
us and seemed to take away our air to breathe. And to find different and
more helpful ways – that we had not previously discovered – in how we
deal with others.

Supplementation
is another key word: By adding what is new and meaningful, a new point of
view and new feeling also arise. This act of adding can only be imagined,
yet we still connect with the principle of hope. Seeing expands into
vision and the future with all of its possibilities becomes a part of the
present.

So the life principle that Jupiter brings with it is more than just
hot air. It is the meaningful and meaning-creating supplementation and
continuation of a dynamic.

But in order to immediately clear away another false image: Jupiter as
the automated, great bringer of good fortune is an astrological old
wives' tale. This only occasionally becomes reality when the Jupiter
principle is related to the corresponding contents that already carry
good fortune and contentment within them as seeds. So health, prosperity,
and great relationships can only be found under its reign where these are
also structured as such. A relationship in which the actual problems
never saw the light of day and never were resolved can now assume that
precisely this will also become the topic. Anyone who manages to accept
the challenges instead of getting excited about how the cozy peace of the
grave has been disturbed can be truly considered a child of good fortune
at the end of this phase.

Expressed in simple terms: The good becomes better and the bad gets worse.

Up to a point of insufferability. In the case of good fortune, this
means stepping out of the personal contexts and sharing this good fortune
with others. Jupiter's boost virtually bursts the inner prison walls of
an ego that is much too small; it can no longer hold the pressure and
whatever is liberated suffices to also make others feel a bit more sated.
In the best case, a type of enlightenment experience, born of generosity
and empathy, is waiting at the end of this phase.

In relation to everything that makes no sense in the truest meaning of
Jupiter, these contents are also pumped up to the point that something
bursts. This is usually our "own collar" as a type of pressure
valve and regulator.

But if we can stand this for a
certain period of time, the images and sensations from which we have
suffered for years suddenly out themselves as a source of extreme
cheerfulness. Through the exaggeration, the outdated structures manifest
in such a bizarre manner that all of the previously valid contexts of
meaning and their apparent truth are just dissolved in uproarious
laughter. Freely according to the motto of "humor is when you laugh
anyway.” Anyone who still wants to refuse this can only be helped by an
absolutely neurotic and misguided Saturn or Pluto element that continues
to insist on how serious the situation appears to be. In order to support
the fundamental embarrassment of the obstinate clinging to concepts with
justification formulas.

However, Jupiter's humor is not really cynical: Instead of poking fun
at others (which is usually a Scorpionic matter for the boss), the focus
is more on the entanglements in apparently stillborn concepts that bear
no spark of life within them and only serve as a defense against life as
a whole. As it is instead of how we would like to have it and how it
should kindly be. From the perspective of a vain person who – from the
inner presence of sensations, perception, and mental images – concludes
that there must also be someone to whom all of this is related.
Ironically, this imagined "creation of a relationship" is what
initially creates this someone or something.

In contrast to "being," the principle of
"I" is also just an idea
imagining that all ideas circle around this "I."

The belief in a boss in the ring who keeps the roiling ship on course.
Together with the fear that without him, her, or it, all life could wind
up in absolute chaos.

A little tip:
Simply ask the boss by the name of (this is where we put our own name)
why this person believes that he or she can control the entire world but
is not even able to regulate the function of just one nerve cell. The
response is usually an extensive blah-blah about how the one thing is in
no way related to the other and a person ultimately has a responsibility,
etc. etc. The heart of the matter: The boss knows nothing, can do
nothing, and usually does not even understand the question.

Well, the good news is that he or she now really gets the right stuff
and the power since Jupiter represents the last member link of the fire
cycle. So the ego can go on a rampage, exaggerating and inflating itself,
and imposing its own feelings upon the entire world (which is called
projection). Until the bubble bursts...

Up to that point, there actually is not much to do – simply leave all
our cares behind and allow the inner and outer things (including the
associated sensations) to run free. Until the aforementioned moment
comes, and the sum of all castles in the air rams into the Saturnine
iceberg. That should really wake us up.

Because right after the sinking of the ego-Titanic, a large expanse
develops. And except for a blinding, luminous clarity, the tangible no
longer exists for a brief moment. No imagination, no concept, no hope,
and no fear. All of the energy and strength of our own universe now
vibrates freely and without any attachments. And we may have done
everything wrong in life up to this point, misunderstood everything, and
have turned everything upside down. We may have become lost in every
projection and expressed every negativity. Yet, this moment still offers
the opportunity of catching a bit of the truth about the nature of It –
life, the universe, and everything.

If we are able to pause in this brief moment after Jupiter's Big Bang
and not sink into a dull oblivion, we can alertly and clearly allow our
self and life as a whole to be what it is. And not immediately feel the
compulsion to stuff it full of inner image garbage, hopes, fears, and the
other usual suspects. Then one single moment can change everything.

And It remains large. It remains expansive. It remains open.

Even if the old pictures and concepts gradually penetrate everyday
consciousness with an increasing urgency, we can and will remember. And
no longer simply forget. This is the blessing of a Jupiter experience
when we have consistently followed it to its end. So the bursting of all
inner and outer soap bubbles is nothing that we should resist or try to
prevent. This is exactly what is contained in Jupiter's life principle.

Bigger, better, faster, and boom: Welcome to reality.

Then this is not yet the end of everything; in any event, it is a
partial or preliminary state of enlightenment. But it is still a start.
The rest is discipline (Saturn), practice (Saturn), and appropriate
behavior (Saturn). Then the further experiences of the Uranus-Aquarius
and Neptune-Pisces worlds can arise almost from within us. Then Jupiter
actually becomes the expression of such an experience as the greatest
possible good luck charm since anyone who has found a home beyond the
narrow boundaries of hope and fear no longer needs to win the lottery.
The greatest jackpot of all times and all worlds already contains
everything that we could possibly desire. And with Jupiter's support in
the next weeks and months, whoever even gets just a touch of an inkling
about where this wish-fulfilling jewel can be found or exactly what it is
will definitely be one of the absolute winners in the game of life.

A lot of "buts" could come now, yet Zeus-Jupiter simply
says: "This is exactly how it will be."

Imagine how great your life will be at the end of this phase, what a
wonderful person you will be, how lovingly you will treat the world and
other people, and how others will treat you in return. All of your hidden
talents will be revealed, your every wish will be fulfilled, and the only
thing that remains for you to do is to fulfill the wishes of those who
have not experienced this great fortune as you have.

Or as Sonni so serenely put it in the film The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel:

Everything will be alright in the end,
so if it is not alright,
it is not yet the end.

Congratulations to all of us: Everything will be better. We will see
each other on the other side of the horizon.

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